From steel to silicon
01/09/2012
Pittsburgh has transformed itself from a steel city to a tech town, thanks to a strong web of universities, entrepreneurial spirit and good co-operation between public and private entities.
Read more in Foreign Direct Investment
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ShowClix 'Pays' Ticket Buyers to Promote Events
01/06/2012
ShowClix provides a fully digital ticketing service for events and has a new product, Incentix, offering cash incentives for consumers to promote tickets on Twitter and Facebook.
Read more in Forbes
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Seema Patel, Fusing robotics adn games with Interbots
12/06/2011
Interbots has developed a robotics toy, Popchilla, that will be used for the ASD market using funds from regional economic development oragnziations, Innovation Works, The Technology Collaborative,Idea Foundry and other organizations.
Read more in New Venturist
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Short pitches compete for long dollars
12/04/2011
The Enterprise Forum held their elevator pitch event, which lets budding entrepreneurs do a quick pitch to a panel and audience for possible funding.
Read more in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Revolution Growth fund aims its $450M at East Coast startups
12/01/2011
Steve Case and partners with the Revolution LLC, plan to invest their $450 million fund in the East over the next five years.
Read more in the Pittsburgh Business Times
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